Zhitetsky Paul Ignatievich

(1836 - 1911). He studied at the Kiev Theological Academy and the University of Kiev, was a teacher of Russian language and literature in Kamenetz-Podolsk and Kiev. Member of the Academy of Sciences (1898). In 1874,. Zhitetsky published "Description Persopnitskoy manuscript XVI century.", In 1876, Mr.. master's thesis "Essay audio stories Little Russian dialect" (Kiev). Of the articles Zhitetskogo placed in the Kiev Antiquities "in the book:" Essay on the Literary History of Little Russian dialect in the XVII and XVIII centuries "(Issue I, Kiev, 1889) and" Thoughts of folk ballads "(Kiev, 1893). Other works Zhitetskogo: "The theory of the composition" (1895), "Essays on the history of poetry" (1898), "Aeneid Kotlyarevskogo" (1900), "On the history of literature in Russian language XVIII." (1903), "On the translation of the Gospel to the Little-Russian Language" (1905). Zhitetsky - one of the most influential proponents of the view that the Kievan Rus was the cradle of the current Little Russian people, and that, without interruption, was the development of Little Russian nationality, life and language. According Zhitetskogo, the main features of the Little Russian vocalism is fully revealed in the XII - XIII centuries. Language Studies Zhitetsky conducted in parallel with the study of political and domestic history of the people, because "in the life of everyday language reflects the mood of the national spirit, people's concepts, beliefs and ideals". - Wed. "Notes Naukova Association in Kiev" (1908, II); "Annual Board Peter Galagan (1912).